Open Access Policy
All research papers published in Noyam Journals are open access. This means that they are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication for free download on the journal website. With open access, authors can easily share the content of their research work with a much wider audience, the global research community can have access to all articles, there is no need to have any kind of membership or pay any fees in order to use, or download published journal articles. Any user can read, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. The copyright holder – author(s) of all published articles grants usage rights to others using an open license (CC BY license).
Noyam Journals currently focus on the research areas of Religious/Theological Studies, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education. Noyam operates as an open access publisher. All Noyam Journals are peer-reviewed and operate an open access policy which implies that:
- the global research community can have access to our Journals.
- our journals promote free and limitless access of all our published content.
- there is no need to have any kind of membership in order to use, or download journal articles
- You can completely reuse, copy and share the researched content available on condition that you must cite the actual author of the manuscript and the original source of data in a proper and clear manner.
Open Research Publishing facilitates:
- High visibility for maximum global exposure with open access publishing model.
- Increased citation and usage. Studies have shown that open access articles are viewed and cited more often than articles that require subscription before usage.
- Rigorous peer review of research publication
- Prompt faster publication with less cost
- Guaranteed targeted, multidisciplinary audience.
- Greater public engagement as the content is available to those who can’t access subscription content.
All original research papers published by Noyam are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. We host all our open access journal articles for free download on our website and deposit the web URLs, abstracts and references with Crossref allowing citation linking to the work. Authors can easily share the content of their research work with a much wider audience.
Creative Commons (CC) licences
The majority of open access publications are made available through Creative Commons licences. These licences stipulate specific conditions for how works can be adapted, shared or reused. All Noyam published articles are licensed under the CC BY license.